For example, on the add-on forum the add-on reviewers should get the add-on reviewer title or else it’s confusing for everyone.

Totally agree. We should make a group with a title for these people. I’m not sure if moderators can manage groups, will look into this and we can work with the add-ons team to set this up.

asdofindia:

Okay, all the titles available in Mozilla would be titles available on discourse, right? Like “Rep”, “Mozillian”, etc? Or are there too many Mozillians that that title wouldn’t make sense?

Hmm, I"m not sure what I think of this. I like titles as information that is helpful to the reader, not a badge of honour that differentiates people. So for Add-on Reviewers or Add-on Moderators it’s important so that the reader can see that the person does have the authority to speak on an issue, their answer can be assumed to be correct. But for Mozillian vs Rep, I don’t know that the title needs to be exposed in everyday discussion. Again, happy to hear examples of where this would be useful!

Hmm, okay, now I’m confused which titles are useful. I’ll just think out loud here.

If there was category specific titles, we could have “foxfooder” in foxfooding category, “participation leader” in participation category, “club lead” in FSA category. But discourse doesn’t have category specific titles. So it’d be confusing and potentially problematic to see a title out of its context. For example, if I see “participation leader” in my community category, I’d be like “oh, this person calls themselves a leader”.

But still there’re things like “coder”, “documenter”, etc. that can probably help in threads. For example, “Why does this person ask so many questions about the technical side? Oh this person is a coder”. But I think that might be helpful only for the “coder” title.